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Akira KUGIMACHI

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Air
h130.3×w162cm, Mineral pigments on kumohada linen paper, 2021

Air
H41.2×W61.0cm, Mineral pigments on kumohada linen paper, 2019

Air#4
H61×W61cm, Mineral pigments on kumohada linen paper

Bifrost red

Snowscape

snowscape
H162×W112cm,　Japanese Painting

Erewhon
h218.2×w333.3cm, Mineral pigments on kumohada linen paper, 2018

PROFILE
1968  Born in Yokohama, Japan
1993 BFA in Fine Arts, Japanese Painting Departement, Tama Art University ,Tokyo, Japan
1995  MFA in Fine Arts, Japanese Painting Departement, Tama Art University ,Tokyo,Japan
1995
-96		 Ecole National Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Marseille, France
1999  MFA in Media Art and Technology, University of Paris VIII, Saint-Denis, France
2000
-20		 Stayed in Paris under a grant from Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japanese Goverment
   

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2013 "Snowscape" Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi / Tokyo
2017 "Re-generation" Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi / Tokyo
2018 "Erewhon", Gallery Art Composition / Tokyo
2020

"Elpis", Gallery Pierre-Yves Caër / Paris


Selected Group Exhibitions
1996 "Escale" Galerie des Beaux-Arts de Marseille / Marseille, France
2011 "Tragique du Paysage" Galerie Eric Mircher / Paris
2012

"A Force de regarder au lieu de voir" Galerie des Grands Bains Douches de la Plaine
/ Marseille, France

2013

"Contemporary Sumi-ink Artist Exhibition" The National Art Center/ Tokyo
2015

"Ombre et Lumière" Galerie DUTKO / Paris

2016

"Paysages Subjectifs" Musee Iancelevici / La Louvière, Belgium
"Encounters", Gallery DUTKO / London
2017

"L'Aurore de Paysage" Villa88 /Bordeaux, France
"Collect" SAATCHI Gallery / London 

2018

"Cainet Da-end 08" Galerie Da-end / Paris
"Renaissance Contemporaine" Pierre-Yves Caër Gallery / Paris

2019

Art Paris, Grand Palais / Paris 　
Art Fair Tokyo, International Forum / Tokyo

2022 Matsumoto Architecture + Art Festival / Nagano
2023

Ebisu Film Festival / Tokyo
"Dystopia/Memory in Transition" Art Front Gallery/ Tokyo


Collection & Selected projects

2009 Permanent collection, “Shadows” Nishi Shuzou / Kagoshima
2010 Permanent collection, Folding Screen “Kanran-zu”, residence of Otsuka Kagu / Tokyo
2011 Permanent installation of "Vertical Waves" in Ryu-gen Shrine / Tokyo
2013 Permanent collection Wall painting “Shadows" at the main salon of residence of Kenzo Tanaka / Paris
2015

Collaboration with DOGNIN "Polochon/Shorin-zu" / Paris

2017 Permanent collection"Seascape" "Colorscape #1～#6" Mitsubishi Corp. Paris Branch / Paris
2018 Permanent collection"Eclipse Platine", residence of Kenzo Takada / Paris
2022 Permanent collection"Air (Gabi)" 　Musée Cernuschi / Paris
   

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